Authority Cited: Steuart
Author name and dates: Steuart (Robert? d.1749, or Sir James?, 1712-1780, or Gilbert Stuart?, 1742-1786)
BKG Bio-tweet: SJ cites Steuart under gunstick in 1773 Dict.; appears to be a line of poetry, perhaps from SJ memory
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: One Steuart cite identified as added in 1773 Dict. Possibilities, but not poets: Robert Steuart, Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh or Sir James Steuart (later Steuart Denham), author of economic texts, or Gilbert Stuart, author of a history of Scotland. Greene in Samuel Johnson's Library, an Annotated Guide indicates that item #551 in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library is 2. Steuart's principles of money, 1772, and that Steuart also authored Principles of Political Economy (1767). Green also records that item #374 in the sale catalogue is 4. Stuart's history of Scotland, 2 v., 1784, &c..]
Author name and dates: Steuart (Robert? d.1749, or Sir James?, 1712-1780, or Gilbert Stuart?, 1742-1786)
BKG Bio-tweet: SJ cites Steuart under gunstick in 1773 Dict.; appears to be a line of poetry, perhaps from SJ memory
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: One Steuart cite identified as added in 1773 Dict. Possibilities, but not poets: Robert Steuart, Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh or Sir James Steuart (later Steuart Denham), author of economic texts, or Gilbert Stuart, author of a history of Scotland. Greene in Samuel Johnson's Library, an Annotated Guide indicates that item #551 in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library is 2. Steuart's principles of money, 1772, and that Steuart also authored Principles of Political Economy (1767). Green also records that item #374 in the sale catalogue is 4. Stuart's history of Scotland, 2 v., 1784, &c..]
- Steuart (no work cited); gunstick ("Ev'n a gunstick flying into fame.)